i hop nobody else does that. >> they ignored the warning signs and are presumed dead. and hundreds of others gather to remember the three young adults in this tragic accident. good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. for the first time tonight, they are no longer names. we see who they were. the three missing hikers who went over vernal falls in yosemite. all three on a church outing. >> don't be like that. don't cross over and don't possibly put yourself in a situation where you're going to hurt your family and friends because of a picture or of anything like that. >> a haunting warning to others from family who returned to vernal fall late this evening. jodi hernandez has their emotional story in moments. but we begin south of tracy

where george kiriyama jns us tonight. hundreds of people gathered there to mourn the hikers. >> reporter: you can tell by the sad looks how this has affected everyone here at st. george's church. tonight they prayed for the family. lily and emily are in disbelief that their cousin was swept over the falls, plunging more than 300 feet into the river. >> he's the brother we never had, he's our best friend and i know he's going to come home. he's coming home and this isn't real. he's coming home because he's my big brother and he's everything i ever asked for. >> reporter: at the family church, they joined two other families in deep mourning. hundreds packed the inside of st. george, many in tears. one asked for help from the community. >> we urge all you watchers to continue praying for our families, that they come home

safely. >> reporter: they were active members of this assyrian church. what happened to them has hit their bishop particularly hard. he's close to their families. >> we pray that the bodies of the victims would be found quickly so that we can perform the proper rites of christian burial and the ease of the families. >> reporter: but some are holding on to hope they will be found alive. >> we don't want him looking down on us, we want him face to face with us to help us for the rest of our lives. >> i know he's going to come back. i don't think this is real. it's not. >> he's coming back. >> reporter: and we're learning more about two of the hikers. she was a nursing student at usf and nino was studying chemistry at cal state. george kiriyama, nbc bay area news. >> george, thank you. there's not much of a search and rescue at yosemite tonight. because of the strong current,

crews won't retrieve the bodies for weeks. as for the victim's families, they returned to vernal fall to somehow emotionally connect with their loved ones. they didn't get into the water or cross the railing. instead, they just stood at the very spot where their loved ones went over the edge. jodi hernandez was there and shares their warning for everyone in the bay area. >> it's -- coming up here, it's a risk. it's hazardous. but they have the rails set in place for a specific reason. what possessed him to cross it and do that i have no idea. >> reporter: he is trying to make sense of the tragic death of his life-long friend, 22-year-old hormes david. david and two friends from church plunged into yosemite's famous vernal fall yesterday after crossing over the guard rail and slipping into the icy,

fast-loving water. he hiked up to the fall to see for himself where his buddy made that fatal mistake. and where signs warn visitor it is they fall into the water they will die. they were at the fall just before the tragedy took place and can't stop thinking about the three young lives lost. >> it's so disturbing because we were up there at the same time. that's what made it -- usually things like this you can disassociate from it and think, oh, that was them and it's far away from me but this was close to us. >> reporter: park officials say the water levels are especially high and especially dangerous this year. because of last winter's record snowfall.a he hopes others willearn from what happened to his friend, and avoid taking risks. >> i just hope that nobody else does that. for your own safety, don't be like that, don't cross over and put yourself in a situation where you're going to hurt your

family and friends because of a picture or anything like that. >> reporter: he said a prayer at the fall today. then threw his crucifix in the water in memory of his friend. at yosemite, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> our coverage continues on our website, nbcbayarea.com. log on to watch more video, and read details about the lives of the victims. once again, that's nbcbayarea.com. no fences memded, at least not tonight. a meeting meant to bring together police and community abruptly ended. jean elle is on the story new at 11:00. a tense situation, so now what happens? how can the issue be resolved? >> reporter: the police chief says he's not giving up.

the police tried to tell the community why they believe saturday's shooting was justified. but some people don't believe anything the police force says and tonight that message of distrust was loud and clear. >> there is a lot of tension that needs to be i guess addressed and i'm glad they are having a town meeting in the neighborhood to kind of try to address those. >> reporter: hundreds of people packed the opera house to adrs building tensioning after police shot and killed 19-year-old kenneth harding saturday. >> i present the chief of police from the san francisco police department. [ crowd boos ] >> reporter: but it became clear some members of the community would be the only ones heard. [ inaudible ] the police chief gave up the microphone and let people vent. speakers criticized police for patrolling muni, accused them of

using excessive force and claim harding was not armed when he was shot. police say he shot first. many residents sat frustrated. >> we need help. >> reporter: nancy says her neighborhood isn't safe and she is desperate for change. >> there was a homicide in front of my house, this incident here, i had to help my daughter process this saying this is not okay. >> reporter: after about an hour, the chief did take questions but emotions were just too raw for dialogue. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: outside, the chief says he knows there were people looking for solutions and he's not giving up on the bay view. >> they shouted me down and that just means i got to come back again. >> reporter: police and city leaders at the meeting tonight

say it is clear they have a lot of work to do to bring some calm back to the bay view and there will be more community meetings. reporting live in san francisco, jean elle, nbc bay area news. >> what an emotional night in the city. thank you, jean. we would have a much different story had her mother not been there to fight for her. a 3-year-old is safe after a stranger tried to kidnap her in her own home. 3-year-old jasmine and her sister, her teenage sister denise were playing outside their apartment complex on park avenue. here's the map, it's not far from downtown san jose. that's when 26-year-old myra flores tried to lure jasmine away with candy. her teenage sister grabbed jasmine and went back to their home. moments later flores walked into their apartment and tried to kidnap the 3-year-old. flores insisted she was the child's mother. she then took off when a

neighbor showed up. police found her 30 minutes later and arrested her. t minus four hours until the space shuttle is grounded forever. it's a historic night in nasa's history. "atlantis" is scheduled to land at 2:56 a.m. pacific time. this is a live look at nasa's houston control room, monitoring the shuttle. the touchdown will close out the program after a 30-year run. ironically, today marks the 42nd anniversary of "apollo 11" which neil armstrong and buzz aldren became the first men to walk on the moon. once again, it's about 3:00 a.m. tonight in just a few hours. a setback tonight for brian stow. what one doctor is revealing

about his condition that sum of brian's own doctors aren't telling us. think about how much of your day is caught on camera. tonight, the stunning number of cameras watching your every move. and how often should you be receiving a mammogram? the survival stat that makes it worthwhile. and good evening. i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. sunny and hot across the bay area. really magnificent and today we had plenty of 90's in the south and east bay. details on howck around hicoming up.s her will stickround coming up [ female announcer ] at jcpenney, we're giving you

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go to jcp.com to see everything on sale. we make style affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. there is not one doctor who has treated brian stow who thinks his recovery will be easy. his doctors agree it's an uphill battle. we learned he had an emergency surgery. we bring in cheryl hurd who joins us live. how serious is this and what does this mean for his recovery? >> reporter: well, there's been no comment from stow's doctors here at sf general. but his family wants supporters

to know how he's doing. they say that his emergency surgery gave the family quite a scare. >> there are other causes for food collection after a bone flap replacement. >> reporter: the doctor has been tracking brian stow's progress since he suffered a brain injury after being beaten at a dodgers game in march. he says a buildup of fluid on the brain and a 30-second seizure is not uncommon for patients in stow's condition. >> there can be simple reaction to surgery, inflammation and infection related to surgery or just simply bleeding. >> reporter: he says there's no way for him to know exactly why brian stow had to have emergency surgery tuesday. he said he reads the family website where it was reported that stow had massive amounts of fluid buildup that caused that 30-second seizure. during the surgery, doctors

found a mass that was never seen before. that was removed and a drainage put in. >> this sort of thing, especially head trauma that's severe, can take months and months and months to show recovery. >> reporter: while stow recovers, los angeles police detectives are working the case. they arrested giovanni ramirez but don't have enough evidence to charge him with the beating. still, a long road to recovery lies ahead for stow. >> there are multiple trials under way to testing various treatment options for people who have had a severe head injury. clearly a lot of information needs to be gleaned from those trials and future trials. >> reporter: the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction for whoever beat stow stands at over $200,000. live in san francisco, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> okay, thank you very much, cheryl. 40, 50, at what age should you get screened for breast

cancer? tonight, the debate is over and 40 is the magic mammogram number. the american college of obstetricians and gynecologists suggest women get mammograms every year starting at age 40 rather than age 50. while experts say breast cancer in younger women is less common, those tumors are more likely to grow quickly, so early detection is key. the organization recommends women between the ages of 20 and 39 get screened every 1 to 3 years. as a society, we like to watch. just look at youtube. more than 2 billion videos are viewed every single day. but in most of those videos, people knew they were being recorded. what about all those times people don't know? tonight, we go indepth on surveillance. garvin thomas joins was an nbc bay area experiment. we have about five cameras watching us now, right? >> that's right. tonight's story grew out of another story.

we were talking about that story in the newsroom and the question came up, how many times a day are we all caught on camera without knowing it? really, how many? ♪ >> reporter: well, it's safe to say, a lot. still, hard numbers are tough to come by and what estimates there are, vary widely. we decided to do an unscientific study of how many times the average person in the bay area is caught on camera. and so for the purposes of this story, and this story only, we're calling tom average. the litigation parallel commutes five days a week from concord to downtown san francisco. >> for six years now. >> reporter: that includes a drive of a little over a mile to the concord b.a.r.t. station, a ride to the stop, and then a few steps down market street to his job at 101 california.

just counting cameras we could see with the naked eye on light polls, gas stations and apartment complexes, we found 22 along his driving route. another five at the b.a.r.t. station and four more with a chance to catch him on the train. these more than 30. and he has been out of his home barely ten minutes. does the idea bother him? not really. he says he's not doing anything wrong. >> i mean, to me it's a good thing. to me it doesn't bother me at all. they're everywhere. >> reporter: once in the city it's another half dozen in the station. then on the walk to work, plus another lunchtime stroll, there are 14 more on buildings, in driveways, in and around atms. that's 51 cameras. 102 if you double it for the

trip home. and we didn't count the ones in his office building, not to mention if he goes to the grocery store after work. conservatively, the number of cameras capturing tom's image during a day at 200. we went to paul worthington who spent years following imaging technology. what did he think of our experiment? >> futile. just can't be done. >> reporter: for starters, he said we're only seeing the cameras businesses want us to see. >> it's not good for the purpose of surveillance to have the survald know where every camera is. >> reporter: and the industry is growing so fast that the number would be out of date the moment you finished. so he says it's a waste of time counting. worthington says our energies are better spent adjusting to a world where you are on camera all the time. >> very soon in our society, you, any time you leave your home, will be on lots of cameras

and someone, and the question is who that someone is, someone will be able to say where is he right now? enter some information and they can see the last camera you were on, whether it's live or not. there's 20 feeds of you on different spots. you didn't know you were on a camera, but you are everywhere. >> reporter: what's more, when you add all the photos we are uploading to social networks and factor in facial recognition, no one is going to be able to escape. that has privacy advocates shuttering, but he says it doesn't have to be a bad thing. centuries ago people lived in small communities where everybody knew where you were and what you were doing. that kept people in line. this is the same thing, only bigger. but better? we'll have to see. let's toss it back to camera two. >> 200 time. >> that is interesting. thank you very much. jeff ranieri loves to be on camera. he found that fantastic. >> it was great.

i'm looking over my shoulder now, where is the other one? yeah, definitely a lot going on when it comes to the cameras. our cameras checking out the view towards the bay bridge tonight. look at this, some great visibility from our oakland camera. 61 degrees, winds at 12 miles per hour. we have fog free conditions tonight, and some of the hottest weather today, 96 in livermore. 96 in gilroy. and popping up to 94 in los gatos. san francisco at 75. right now still holding on to mild air in san jose with 68. also 74 in livermore and 62 in hayward. numbers starting to drop off with a little bit of an on shore flow coming back. however, it's not going to be strong enough to bring back the fog for tomorrow. for the weekend, we are going to be talking about some weekend

changes coming our way. these winds are barreling across the coastline, northwest 10 to 20 miles per hour and it's that northwest wind that will bring us this hot air for tomorrow and preventing any fog from developing at all. so high pressure stays across most of the west, more 90s inland by thursday. and friday, some cooling. tomorrow morning, we may see a little fog from pacifica down to santa cruz, expecting a clear start for the south bay. as we transition through tomorrow, sunny skies expected into the noon area and afternoon and evening, as well. so let's get you into our morning for our -- i almost said friday, but yes, for thursday, 63 in san jose. 58 in gilroy. 65 in concord. 57 in san francisco. and one of the hottest spots yet again tomorrow will be those of you in the south bay. not quite record setting. we need the low 100s to pop up

into records. 95 in livermore. 94 in concord. 92 in napa and right up into the north bay, upper 80s and low 90s. let's get to your seven-day forecast. that hot weather for tomorrow, cooling off friday, saturday, sunday and monday with upper 80s and 60s returning to the coastline. we'll return with moreter sis.s the big, bold taste r of a subway® bbq pulled pork sub. tender, succulent slow-cooked pork with sweet and smoky barbecue sauce, all on freshly baked bread. subway. eat fresh®.

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a real-life weed. the number of medical marijuanas are sprouting. city council members voted to double the number of dispensaries from four to eight. and the health center, which calls itself the world's largest legal retailer of can bus, is going hollywood. they will be featured in the reality show called "weed wars." >> i think that the city council's decision last night is a testament to the depth of support for medical canibus. >> they say they pay $3 million a year in taxes and handles 800 patients. hi parents, it's going to be such a big school year.

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we had some baseball history today and a big giants game. we bring in henry wofford. henry, all smiles most of the time. are you tonight, as well? >> absolutely. any time i'm talking sports, i'm in a good mood. winning is sweet, but there's

not like beating up your biggest rival. san francisco trying to lay the sweep on l.a. today. could the dodgers dodge their seventh consecutive loss to the giants. clayton kershaw and tim lincecum in the matchup today. 6th inning, lincecum strikes out juan rivera. one of seven on the day. top of the 7th, his only mistake, navaro splash hit home run to make it 1-0 dodgers. to the bottom of the 8th, kershaw strikes out two. jamie has more from the park. >> reporter: it was billed as a pitching duel and lived up to the hype. lincecum and kershaw twined for 19 strikeouts with the home run in the 7th inning being the only blemish for the giants' ace. >> you know it's going to be a close game so you got to be on

top of yours. i flinched first. >> you got two of the better young talents in the game going at it and the game went pretty much how i thought, except they got the one run. >> reporter: sandoval was not in the lineup but he did pinch-hit in the 9th inning. reporting from at&t park, i'm jamie seyer for nbc bay area. >> thank you, jamie. history in detroit. the a's' matsui sitting on 499 career home runs. go ahead and add one more to it. top of the 6th, game tied at 2-2. matsui, his 500th career home run. a solo shot. to the 9th we go, a's up 7-5, one on, two outs, and andrew bailey says we can go home now. miguel cabrera strikes out. 10th save of the years for the a's who win 7-5. by the way, nothing new to

report on the nfl lockout. hopefully it ends on thursday. we will keep you updated. back over to raj and jessica. >> thaounr htbek. [ female announcer ] at jcpenney, we're giving you

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it's the biggest party in the country and it's this weekend in san diego. if you want to expand your pop culture knowledge, get down to southern california. that's where the much anticipated comic convention is. tens of thousands of people, this is huge, are expected to check this out. all things comic here. and it's all become a who's who of hollywood. justin timberlake is supposed to be there. and tomorrow, kristen stewart and taylor will take part in talking about the "twilight" movie 245 opens in november. good night.